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What would happen if Google turned its search capability on itself?
And googled “Leadership?” Turns out, they did exactly that. And they came up with a short list of traits that describe effective leaders. …the “people analytics” teams at the company produced what might be called the Eight Habits of Highly … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
Tagged Android, Companies, Google, Google Maps, Leadership, Mike Reardon, postaday2011, search, Search Engines, Web search engine, YouTube
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The answer to my usual question
Had to wait for another visit to Detroit I was in Detroit in August. And when I asked where was the one place I ‘had’ to go, I got a surprising answer. I was told I had to get a … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Leadership, Travel
Tagged Coney, Detroit, Hot dogs, Leadership, Michigan, Mike Reardon, postaday2011, Seth Godin, Unconventional thinking, Weird
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No free beer?
Hyatt has done away with free beer. Are they crazy? The manager’s reception, with it’s free beer, has been replaced with an open house. Open to guests and their friends. The catch? You’ll now have to pay for your food and … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Change, Service, Travel
Tagged Beer, Change, Food, Hyatt, Mike Reardon, postaday2011, Quality Service, Travel, Unconventional thinking, Walt Disney
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If you don’t have an iPad…
You can get a great deal on “something else” The BlackBerry PlayBook is RIM’s first tablet, and it is also the first device to launch with the company’s new QNX-based mobile operating system. While the tablet can now safely be … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Leadership, Technology
Tagged Apple, BlackBerry, BlackBerry PlayBook, iPad, Microsoft, Mike Reardon, postaday2011, QNX, Research In Motion, technology, Touchpad
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Now they sell it. Now they don’t.
HP To Temporarily Resume Manufacturing Of Touchpad Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will temporarily resume manufacturing of its ill-fated tablet computer just 11 days after killing its iPad rival as part of a sweeping corporate overhaul. via HP To Temporarily Resume … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Change, Leadership, Technology
Tagged Change, EBay, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, Léo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, Mike Reardon, postaday2011, Tablet computer, technology, Touchpad, WebOS
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Twitter doesn’t own “tweet?”
You can’t make this stuff up. Heinz is saving the French Fry with bigger ketchup packages. Netflix discovers “a foul-mouthed pothead” owns the twitter handle for Qwikster. And, now, we learn that Twitter doesn’t own “Tweet.” But while Twitter publishes … Continue reading
‘Faster Than Light’ Particles Make Time Travel Possible?
I thought it was slingshotting the starship around the sun. ”If something travels faster than the cosmic speed limit, then it becomes possible to send information into the past – in other words, time travel into the past would become … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Inspiration, Travel
Tagged Albert Einstein, Carpe Diem, CERN, Change, Faster-than-light, Mike Reardon, Neutrino, postaday2011, Subatomic particle, Time travel, Unconventional thinking
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Seems like it would have been smart
To check this out first Netflix changed the name of its DVD mailing service to “Qwikster” over the weekend, only to find out after the fact that the correlating Twitter handle is already registered to a foul-mouthed pothead. via Sorry, … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Change, Technology
Tagged Change, DVD, Netflix, postaday2011, Social Media, technology, Twitter
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I couldn’t see the doorway
for the trees. And I wondered who the heck put trees on the stairs. And why? ‘Cause that’s crazy, isn’t it? Unless you’re trying to figure out how to stop an ingrained, habitual behavior that is dangerous. Like walking up … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Inspiration, Leadership, Values
Tagged Change, commitment, communication, Leadership, Mike Reardon, postaday2011, Unconventional thinking, Walt Disney Company
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I’m not an expert
And I don’t have any research studies to back me up. But I don’t think Heinz has this right. Heinz believes traditional ketchup packets are so annoying that they stop people from ordering fries at drive-thrus. “Fry inclusion orders” at … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Service
Tagged Change, Chick-fil-A, Dips, French fries, H. J. Heinz Company, Ketchup, Mike Reardon, postaday2011, Quality Service, The Wall Street Journal
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